The Company They Keep: How Partisan Divisions Came to the Supreme Court

by Lawrence Baum and Neal Devins

Book Overview

Are Supreme Court justices swayed by the political environment that surrounds them? Most people think "yes," and they point to the influence of the general public and the other branches of government on the Court. It is not that simple, however.

As the eminent law and politics scholars Neal Devins and Lawrence Baum show in The Company They Keep, justices today are reacting far more to subtle social forces in their own elite legal world than...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190278056
• ISBN13: 9780190278052
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"